World fairs staged indigenous people in folkloric displays as indigenous

Evidence

Most world fairs featured a large ethnographic section where “natives” in folkloric costume performed activities presented as indigenous. The anthropologist Franz Boas brought an Inuit to the St. Louis World Fair of 1904, to be featured in its “Eskimo village.” — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 989

Categorization

• XREF: Extends to the human-zoo phenomenon; connects to how Orientalist world fairs staged Jews as oriental Semites elsewhere in this volume. — connects to: Modern holidays individuated what festivals once celebrated collectively; Many honored traditions were invented recently for commercial reasons — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 649